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Tolkien's First Fantasy Tale to be Published After 100 Years

posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2015, @06:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the ...and-the-first-will-be-last dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Tolkien wrote the dark tale when he was but a 22 year old student. It is based on a character from Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, which he as a linguist studied. His biographer has said that the work was important for the creation of new languages. Tolkien himself has commented that it was then that he began writing legends of his own.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Sunday June 14 2015, @10:19PM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Sunday June 14 2015, @10:19PM (#196267)

    What are they going to do when every scrap of paper this guy ever wrote on has been monetized? Do they have a cache of his old grocery lists? Phone doodles? Dry cleaning receipts? I just wonder if the output of stuff like this will ever stop.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 15 2015, @03:39AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday June 15 2015, @03:39AM (#196345) Homepage Journal

    Tom Lehrer said that to me in 1986 or so, when I asked him to autograph one of his albums from the 1950s.

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